Ranjeet Singh nets hat-trick 10-man Maharashtra win big

Saturday, January 13, 2018

Mumbai: A 10-man Maharashtra posted a fluent 5-0 win against Lakshadweep in a Group-B qualifying round league match of the AIFF 72nd National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy to be held at Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Thursday.

The feature of Maharashtra’s victory was the fine efforts from striker Ranjeet Singh who netted a hat-trick scoring three of the first four goals, scored in the first half. Sahil Bhokare and Aaron D’Costa scored the other two goals.

Maharashtra captain and goalkeeper Owais Khan unnecessarily came out of his area and handled the ball which prompted the referee to immediately flash the red card at the offending custodian in the 45th minute. Playing with a man down, Maharashtra slowed the game down in the second period and they were more intent of keeping ball possession and managed to add one more goal to the four that they had scored in the first session.

Allround show by Vedant, Palash in Khichadia schools cricket
Centuries by Palash Pawar (102) for IES New English andVedant Gadia (142) for Vibgyor (Goregaon) highlighted the opening day’s ties in the B.Kichadia-Khar Gymkhana Suburban schools cricket tournament. In fact, both Vedant and Palash also excelled in bowling as well. Vedant apart from scoring 142, also captured seven wickets for 54 in his side’s 116 runs win over Rustomji International, while Palash bagged three wickets for five runs to help his side beat IES International Charkop by by 182 runs.

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